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Kitchen Garden Magazine - UK's No.1 for growing your own fruit and vegetables. KG also offers great monthly give-aways, special gardening offers, recipes, growing tips and much more.

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TOP JOBS FOR JUNE • ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS BY BEN VANHEEMS

UNDER COVER

ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers

GROW WITH BELLE GROW YOUR OWN PEAS! • Hi! I'm Belle and I'm here every month to share lots of fun activities for you to do at home, on your own or with your family

WHAT'S NEW? • ALL THE LATEST NEWS, PRODUCTS & FACTS FROM THE WORLD OF KITCHEN GARDENING

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QUESTION TIME • GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP

COURGETTES UNCOVERED • If you follow Martin Fish's advice and top tips you can expect a summer of copious courgettes, plus there's another succulent dish from wife Jill

COURGETTE, HAM AND APPLE PERSILLADE

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH • Last year we launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would appear in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Our latest winner makes the most of her back garden

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USING AND CONSERVING WATER • Water is a valuable resource and Stephanie Hafferty offers some tips on storing, using and reducing our need for it on our plots

ROOTING FOR carrots • KG editor Steve Ott takes a look at one of our most popular root veg and offers his top tips for great harvests

STRAWBERRIES SEASON BY SEASON • Delicious, vibrant, easy to grow and easy to maintain. What's not to love about this most succulent of fruit, asks David Patch

EXCLUSIVE KG OFFER: SAVE UP TO £6 ON STRAWBERRY PLANTS!

CULTIVATE AND CONNECT • Gardeners have always enjoyed comparing growing stories and sharing advice. Hannah Reid looks at the social media trends in gardening and how it cultivates friendships

HOW TO BEAT POTATO BLIGHT • Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic shares his troubleshooting toolkit for tackling blight

SARPO VARIETIES

BOOK REVIEWS • Here's a roundup of some of the best gardening titles that have arrived recently in the KG office

BUILD A POND TO BE PROUD OF • Creating a wildlife pond in your garden is one of the best gifts you can offer wildlife, which in turn will help to look after your crops, says professional gardener and garden writer Ade Sellars

Redefining SUSTAINABILITY • Becky Searle heads up to Cumbria to talk to the couple behind Dalefoot Composts, a company that specialises in peat-free compost, using potash-rich bracken from local farms

GROW YOUR OWN BERRY BOWL • Enjoy the fruits of your labour - literally - says Rob Smith, with home-grown berries. He also highlights some special varieties

IT's ALL ABOUT THE SOIL • NEWS, ADVICE AND INSPIRATION FOR ALLOTMENT HOLDERS FROM THE NATIONAL ALLOTMENT SOCIETY

COMBAT APHIDS NATURALLY • This month garden writer and blogger Emily Cupit turns her attention to that sap-sucking menace, the aphid, and offers some eco-friendly ways to control them

To PINCH OR NOT TO PINCH? • Sometimes plants benefit from having their growing tips removed, as Becky Searle explains

PRODUCT REVIEWS GREENHOUSE SHADING • Protect those greenhouse plants from scorching in the summer heat with a range of options from blinds to shading paint to netting

READER OFFERS • EXCLUSIVE SAVINGS TO HELP MAKE YOUR MONEY GO FURTHER

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